The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-17
FLORIDA.


FLORIDA.
The Methodist church building at Bowl
ing Green will soon be finished.
There is a tea plant in the yard of Mrs.
Smith, at Palatka, that is three or four feet
high.
Judge T. w. Anderson, of Homeland, has
made arrangements to plant twenty-acre
peach orchard.
The Orlando Gas Company is working
steadily to have everything ready to turn
on gas by Jan. 1.
Capt. Isaac A Mason, of Bowling Green,
has sold his orange crop to Cyrus Jones at
SOC. per hundred on the trees.
Forty-two Italians left Jacksonville on the
Florida Railway and Navigation road on
Thursday morning for Yellow Bluff, via
Cedar Keys, to work on the Orange Belt
railroad, which is now being rapidly pushed
on TO Tarpon Springs and southwark to
Point Pinellas.
The Palatka police and entire force of
employees are still paid in scrip and they
can get no money on it, except at a ruinous
discount. One of the police was offered
60c. on the dollar for his, which Of course
he refused The chairman of the Council
failed to borrow the funds authorized TO
pay off the labor bills for last month.
Rowena, furnished the car of w. S. Webb,
"Florida on Wheels" with five pineapples
weighing in the aggregate twenty eight
and three-fourths pounds. Mrs. Wilson has
now about ], 800 plants, in which she takes
great pride, attending to them herself alone.
Her place is on pine land and only one barrel
of fertilizer has been used this year.
The Florida Conference of the NJ. E.
Church South, convened in annual session
ToI,,
Key, of Georgia, presiding. There is a full
attendance of ministers and lay delegates,
and the town is full of strangers. Rev. J. w.
Burke, Of Macon, preached an able sermon
last Wednesday. Young j. Allen, who has
performed missionary work in China and
Japan for the past thirty years, delivered
quite interesting lectures. Other distin-
guished visitors are expected. Services are
held daily in all the churches.
For six years past Col. John Q. Bur-
bridge, Mayor of Jacksonville, has been
stubbornly fighting for the possession of
half interest in two valuable plantations in
Mississippi and ten days ago the United
States Supreme Court decided in his favor.
Both of these plantations are located on
Black river, in the vicinity OF Vicksburg,
which is the finest cotton section of the
State. Each of the two contain about 500
acres highly improved, and with good
houses, barns, etc. Negotiations are now
pending for their being rented for the COM
ing season In one of the houses on the prop
erty, Gen. Grant made his headquarters
during the siege of Vicksburg.
In the midst of the third act of "Lady
Clancartyn at Palatka Wednesday night
some one with stout lungs at the foot of the
stairway at Fry's Opera House shouted
fire" Instantly there was a chatter of
feet and general rush toward the exit.
s~fA h. aha1l ID
wells of fire were not calculated to allay the
fears of the audience. A few of the cooler
heads soon restored order, and in view of
the fact that the fire was several blocks
away there was no cause for alarm. Sew
eral attempts were made by the company
to resume the play, but 1t was uphill work
to get started again. By and by the excite
ment died away and the play continued.
Tallahassee TdttdhdSSedn. Some home
made counterpanes, or bed spreads, were
sent to Saxon 81 Co.'s store last week to be
sold. They were from Wakulla county,
and the girl. the sheep, the cotton, the dye,
the spinning wheel, the loom, the sleys, the
shuttles and everything connected with the
making of these neat and comfortable
spreads, except 40 cent pair of cards,
were raised in Wakulla county.
A Wakulla farmer raised the sheep and the
cotton and made the loom and spinning
wheel, and Miss Theodosia Lawhorn carded,
| spun andsdyed from such dyes as are plen-
tiful in the forests of Wakulla), and wove
the spreads after patterns of her own de-
| signing, and they are pretty enough to adorn
the bed of Prince.
Pensacola Commercial: Further informa-
ton in respect to the suit of clothes found
| Monday evening, near Sullivan's boom, is
to the effect that their owner, in his success
| full effort to prevent Identification of him
| through Puf
from his shirt front, erased his
name from the lining of his hat
and had destroyed the label on small phial
Of medicine which, with 15c, was found in
the pocket of the clothes. With the excep-
ton of the overcoat the clothing was of
English cut and make, and from that fact it
| is inferred that their owner was an English
man. If he suicided, which looks probable,
and by drowning himself in the boom his
body will likely stay in one spot until it
rises, as there is little if any tide in the in
closure.
The Art Annex building of the Sub-Tropi-
| cal Exposition at Jacksonville was begun
Thursday. 1t will be SSx62, and two stories
| high the upper floor being the art gallery.
On the first floor will be reading and wait
ing rooms, etc The walls of the upper sto-
ry will be 20 feet high, giving plenty of
room for hanging the canvasses. The light
also will be ample. In the centre of the
floor will be erected a triangle 20 feet high,
in the inside of which the most valuable
paintings will be shown. II. Jay Smith, the
art director, is u wealthy Minneapolis gen.
tleman, and he has had considerable expert
ence in this line, having had charge of the
art exhibit of the Minneapolis exposition,
which was declared one of the best ever
held. The art exhibit here, it is said, will
be second only to that at the centennial ex-
| position at Philadelphia. The famous pri-
vate galleries of New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia and other cities, will be freely
drawn upon, and many works of the old
masters are promised. One feature of the
exhibit viii be the reviewing of the most
celebrated works. These will remain on
the walls for week, and then give way to
other masterpieces. Probably 400 canvasses,
or over, will be shown, many of them
valued at thousands Of dollars each.
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